"It is with astonishment, sadness and concern that I have learned that this publication is risking increasing the current outrage across the Muslim world," he said. "I would appeal to them not to pour oil on the fire."

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tahir

19-09-2012 11:52am

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Strategical use of the Freedom of Speech

The french magazine that currently has intruded the privacy of the princess of wales has been banned, where goes the freedom of speech?
There are laws to punish the holocaust denial, where hide the advocates of the freedom of speech?
People are accused to commit anti-seitism when they urge to expose the zionism and the jewish mal-behave in the west, where flies the flags of the freedom of speech then?
Through deliberate negligence of the perpetual acts of the blasphemy, the west is depicting its mean mentality, historical biasedness, and the narrow mindedness towards ISLAM.
Where will the strategy lead the civilizations, the propellers are well planned and well awared. Be Aware Commom Westerns, Be Aware the Muslims. Be aware UNO to take notice of the blowers.

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John Andrews

19-09-2012 12:24am

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All unite

All Muslims should unite and put their full trust behind eg Egypt's Morsi - a leader of a hopefully Islamic kind of government - who should make an organized, carefully-considered but both legal and forceful response to the whole issue ... not forgetting the good example of the Prophet of Islam himself.

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Ali

18-09-2012 09:18pm

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why the fire in the first place!!

for those who say that the cartoons will add oil or even gasoline to the fire, I say, why is there fire in the first place? Was not the prophet , PBUH, met with rejection at the begining? He surely did not react in the way Muslims react ? Besides, everyone nneds to learn that the culture of the west has no limits on freedom of speech , even if it comes to insulting religions, prophets or politicians. We should not regard any crazy person writing or drawing something as always an infidel and or/ Chrisitian who hates Islam. Often times, such people have no religion other than Satanism that seeks to create a strife/ Fitna between Muslims & Christians. And let me say that there are many western movies that insulted and plasphemed Jesus Christ , but we have never heard of any violent reaction to such films.
In brief, such reaction in the Muslim world give the wrong idea about Islam. This should not be the case.

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Najjar

18-09-2012 10:41pm

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There is a difference...

...between freedom of speech and 'freedom to insult and defame' huge difference. Otherwise I and 1.5 billion Muslims agree with you that violence has never solved any problem. Violence must be condemned and stopped.